In Mortimer's latest collection of Rumpole stories, the comic, courageous, and corpulent "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" is joined by a winning cast of villains and victims in tales whose wry humor and sparkling wit deftly send up the British legal system.
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About the Author:
John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh s "Brideshead Revisited." He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography."
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0140263144
- ISBN 13 9780140263145
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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